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“There are forces making for happiness, and forces making for misery. We do not know which will prevail, but to act wisely we must be aware of both.”<p><b>Bertrand Russell</b> (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) is one of humanity’s most grounding yet elevating thinkers, his writing at once lucid and luminous. …

Philadelphia-based artist James McNabb transforms scraps of wood into awesome assemblages of architectural shapes, dazzling cityscapes made of repurposed wood that sometimes resemble tables and wheels. McNabb describes his unique form of woodworking as “sketching with a bandsaw.”<p>“I compare hyperrealistic painting to fine woodworking. Both are slow, tedious, detail oriented process that require great care and consideration through every stage of making. In contrast, I compare my style of rapid …

When life gets in the way of solid snooze time, the first place it shows is on your dial for everybody to see. Want to avoid all that stress? It's important to know the best ways to trick everyone into thinking you switched off the lights well before those a.m. hours rolled around.<p>Ahead, we've …

Some people make it their goal to eat at every Michelin three-star. Some want to tick their way through that strangely influential <i>Restaurant</i> magazine World’s 50 Best list. Some want to dine at every Relais & Châteaux. And others want to say, Enough with all that, and hightail it to the hawker …

German actor Eva Mattes, who made her name in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder, dons a beard to play the controversial director himself<p>The bitter tears of Fassbinder’s women<p>Eva Mattes, the German actress, has taken a great many risks already in her comparatively short life. Before she came of age, …

Lunge, Gov. Peter Shumlin's director of health reform, had spent weeks trying to make the math work for a public health insurance plan that would cover all Vermonters. Since Thanksgiving, she had been sending numbers off to M.I.T. economist Jonathan Gruber (yes, that Jonathan Gruber) and Wakely …

They didn’t sell a lot of records, but everyone who heard them started a band.<p><i>Still from 'Beautiful Noise'</i><p><i>Beautiful Noise</i>, the recently-released documentary about shoegaze music and culture, opens with Channel 10 News reporting on a Cocteau Twins concert at the Newport Music Hall in Columbus, Ohio. …

I consider my annual best-of reading lists a kind of Old Year’s resolutions in reverse — unlike traditional resolutions, which lay out an aspirational list of priorities for the new year, these represent a look back at the books that proved themselves most worth prioritizing over the setting year. …

To commemorate 2014, both good and bad, Beutler Ink created an amazingly-detailed graphic highlighting some of the most newsworthy things of this year. The Washington, DC-based digital content agency gave a nod to Wes Anderson's <i>The Grand Budapest Hotel</i> movie poster and cross sectioned it with …

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to spend time with an incredible spiritual teacher named Arkan on sacred land in New Mexico. He does not have a personal website or social media platform. He does have a profound connection to Spirit and Mother Earth that makes him one of the most impactful …

Jordan Metzl, M.D., a sports medicine physician at New York City's Hospital for Special Surgery, gets how hard it is to wake up to work out. "It's a tough habit to get into," he says. That said: "I'm a huge believer in morning workouts because it starts your metabolic furnace and ensures you'll …